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<div style="line-height:120%; padding:0.2em; background-color:#ddffdd; border-bottom:1px solid #aaaaaa;">
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<span style="font-size:120%;">'''[{PERMALINK} {TITLE}]'''</span>
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<div style="background:#ffffff; padding:0.2em 0.4em 0.2em 0.4em;">
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{DESCRIPTION}
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=Alpha 220 LED Sign=
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I am using my Kuro Pro to drive an Alpha 215/220 LED Display I happened to have one of these signs lying around.
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[[Image:alpha220.jpg]] <br>
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<b>220 Full Matrix</b>, (Case 37.7" x 3.8" x 2.9 ") Tricolor
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<ref>[http://www.adaptivedisplays.com/Media/97014002.pdf 220 brochure (Pdf)]</ref>
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==Install a Serial Port Interface==
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First you are going to have to install a [[serial port]] interface.  I ended up installing mine to the [[Add a Serial port to the ARM9 Linkstation | serial port on the bottom]], but the serial port on the [[SCON-KIT/_PRO_quick_manual | front]]  is easier and the same.
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I used a board from futurelec, they are dirt cheap, but take forever to get to you
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http://www.futurlec.com/Mini_RS232_TTL_3V.shtml
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[[Image:ET-MINI_RS232_3V.jpg|200px]]
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I used a Quick port RJ-12 jack to interface the sign to the serial port converter
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[[Image:RJ12jack.jpg]]
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Then I shoved the whole thing in a 2 port Quick port surface mount housing
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[[Image:2PSM.jpg]]
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==Interface Sign to Serial Port Interface==
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I used a standard 6 wire telephone cable meant for a two line phone (a 4 wire one will not work) Plug one end into the sign.  And one end into the Quick port RJ-12 Jack
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Wire the jack into the serial port board as such<ref>[http://wls.wwco.com/ledsigns/alpha/cable.html Building a Data Cable for Alpha LED Scrolling Signs]</ref>
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* Pin 4 of the RJ12 to RS-232 RX.
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* Pin 3 of the RJ12 to RS-232 TX
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* Pin 6 of the RJ12 to RS-232 GND
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==Setup the serial port==
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You will have to adjust the serial port settings.  I use a script to do this.  My information came from a FAQ on using the Alpha sign with Linux<ref>[http://wls.wwco.com/ledsigns/alpha/AlphaLinux.html Using the Alpha 215C with Linux]
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</ref>.
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===setledsign===
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<pre>
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# /usr/local/bin/setledsign
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#!/bin/sh
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rm /dev/alpha
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ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/alpha
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chmod a+rw /dev/alpha
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stty 9600 -opost -ocrnl -onlcr cs7 parenb -parodd < /dev/alpha
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</pre>
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==Wake up the sign and display something on it==
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I use a script that I stole from the above site. 
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===alphamon.pl===
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# alphamon.pl
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#!/usr/bin/perl
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# Script will display the contents of /tmp/textfile to the ALPHA 220C LED
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# Display
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# Usage
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# alphamon.pl [MODE TAG] [COLORTAG]
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# Get the attention of the sign
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print "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0";
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# Tell the sign to print the message
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$message = `cat /tmp/textfile` ;
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print "\001" . "Z" . "00" . "\002" . "AA" . "\x1B" . " $ARGV[0]" . "\x1C" . "$ARGV[1]" . $message . "\004";
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</pre>
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===Alpha Sign Syntax===
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"\001" . "Z" . "00" . "\002" . "AA" . "\x1B" . "t". "\x1C" . "1". Hello World . "\004"
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{| border=1
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|  HEIGHT=16 ALIGN=LEFT | <b>Value</b>
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|  ALIGN=LEFT | <b>Meaning</b>
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|  ALIGN=LEFT | <b>Code Type</b>
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====MODE TAG and COLORTAG====
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The key parts of this are the MODE TAG and COLORTAG, there is full documentation available for this<ref>[http://www.ams-i.com/Pages/97088061.htm Alpha Sign Communications Protocol (pn 9708-8061)]
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</ref> but here are the pertinant parts.
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* a - Regular smooth scroll, right to left
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* b - Appear. Centers as much of message on screen, waits, and  displays  rest of message in similar manner
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* d - Auto. Randomly picks an effect for each part of the message, as opposed to the message as a whole.
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* n - This is doing something weird based on message itself. Will have to investigate.
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I do use the sign for a number of other purposes, to display RSS feeds and weather forecasts.  But the most complicated script is to display a live stock ticker that gets it's data from yahoo.  It then colors the prices green if they are positive/up and red if they are negative/down for the day.
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First you should install perl and make
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Revision as of 21:19, 9 August 2007

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Contents

Linkstation HG 250

Operating System

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Kuro HG

Operating System

What I use them for:

My Install

FreeLinkomatix - Convert the LinkStation into a Full-fledged Debian Linux Server

Install an Encrypted Filespace with EncFS

USB Palm OS Device as an LCD Display

S.M.A.R.T. hard drive monitoring

This little script generates a small bit of html showing a number of system stats 


 tc=$(smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep 194 | colrm 1 87)
 tf=$(echo "scale=2;((9/5) * $tc) + 32" |bc)
 echo " Used   %  Share"
 echo "------ --- -----"
 df -h | grep /dev/hda | colrm 1 27 | colrm 6 11
 df -h| colrm  45 55 | grep /dev/s | grep -v tmpfs | colrm 1 27 | colrm 6 11
 echo "<table>"
 echo "<tr><td>Users:</td><td>"
 users
 echo "</td></tr>"
 echo "<tr><td>Uptime:</td><td> "
 uptime \
  | awk '{
   # chops off "up" and everything before it:
   sub(/.*up[ ]+/,"",$0)
   # chops off ", # users" and everything after it:
   sub(/,[ ]+[0-9]+ user.*/,"",$0)
   # cleans up extra spaces, i think:
   sub(/,/,"",$0)
   # obvious enough, prints the results
   print($0)
 }'
 echo "</td></tr>"
 echo "<tr><td>Load:</td><td>"
 uptime | sed 's/^.*average: / /'
 echo "</td></tr><tr><td>Temp:</td><td>"
 echo $tf " F"
 echo "</td></tr> </table>"
 echo "<hr>"
 date | colrm 20 30"
 echo "<hr>"

Album - Photo gallery generator which has theme support

MarginalHacks/Album: A HTML photo album generator that supports themes. It takes directories of images and creates all the thumbnails and HTML that you need. 

apt-get install album

Dominatrix6.jpg

Dominatrix6

  • Use wget to get and install this theme
  • To use a theme, download the theme .tar or .zip and unpack it. 
mkdir /home/httpd/Themes/
cd /home/httpd/Themes/
wget http://marginalhacks.com/Hacks/album/Themes/Dominatrix6.tar.gz
tar -xvzf Dominatrix6.tar.gz
rm Dominatrix6.tar.gz
  • Full resolution images are usually too big for a web album, so we'll use medium images on the image pages:
  • Then call album with the -theme option, with or without -theme_path: 
album -medium 33% -theme Dominatrix6 /home/httpd/test/Photos
album -medium 33% -theme Dominatrix6 -theme_path /home/httpd/Themes/ /home/httpd/test/Photos

Small and simple console-based bandwidth monitor

Bandwidth Monitor NG (bwm-ng) is a small and simple console-based live bandwidth monitor. Short list of features:

  • Supports /proc/net/dev, netstat, getifaddr, sysctl, kstat and libstatgrab
  • Unlimited number of interfaces supported
  • Interfaces are added or removed dynamically from list
  • White-/blacklist of interfaces
  • Output of KB/s, Kb/s, packets, errors, average, max and total sum
  • Output in curses, plain console, CSV or HTML
  • Configfile 
wget http://www.gropp.org/bwm-ng/bwm-ng-0.5.tar.gz
tar bwm-ng-0.5.tar.gz
cd bwm-ng-0.5
./configure
make
make install
bwm-ng -T a -o html

Install raop-play for Airport Express

Raop-play is a music file player for the Apple Airport express, the main functionalities are as follows:

  • Make AEX become your 2'nd sound card device.
  • Discover Airport Express by Apple Rendezvous
  • Browse music files (Supported music file format: m4a(alac or aac), wav, mp3, ogg, flac, aac, pls, raw pcm)
  • Send selected files to the Airport Express
  • Play mp3 stream data (filename started with "http://")

Required Packages:

  • openssl library and header
  • fltk1.1.4 library and header
  • fluid (this comes with fltk1.1.4)
  • libglib-2.0 header only
  • libsamplerate library and header
  • libid3tag library and header

Get any required packages to take care of dependancies: 

apt-get install libssl libssl-dev libfltk1.1-dev libfltk1.1c102 fluid libglib2.0-dev libsamplerate0 libsamplerate0-dev libid3tag0 libid3tag0-dev

Then get raop_play-0.5.1.tar.gz from here, compile, make, and install it: 

tar -xvzf raop_play-0.5.1.tar.gz
cd raop_play-0.5.1  
./configure
make
make install

BashPodder

BashPodder is a podcast client written in bash. It is designed to be a simple, fast, and lightweight podcast client that always works. It is designed to conform to the KISS principal ("Keep it simple, stupid"). Various GUIs also exist for BashPodder. 

wget http://linc.homeunix.org:8080/scripts/bashpodder/bashpodder.shell
wget http://linc.homeunix.org:8080/scripts/bashpodder/parse_enclosure.xsl
wget http://linc.homeunix.org:8080/scripts/bashpodder/bp.conf
chmod a+x bashpodder.shell

change bp.conf to included desired feeds.

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